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Release the hounds!

Driving north on Lake Shore Drive at 6:15 p.m. today I noticed that the lakefront path between Oak Street Beach and the North Avenue pedestrian bridge [...]
Rogers Park conversions – from a crack house to a tire store

Rogers Park conversions – from a crack house to a tire store

The last ingenious conversion project we saw in Rogers Park was the conversion of an old crack house at 1522 W Jonquil Terrace into the gorgeous Baybe [...]

Distinctive Maoism comes to Lincoln Park

It could be a creative cross-marketing effort, though we suspect it was sabotage. Either way, We were shocked and dismayed (ok, a little amused too) y [...]

How a FSBO gets on the MLS

An ex-employee, who's selling his own condo, e-mailed asking for recommendations on how to get his property in the multiple listing service. I was sc [...]

Redlining the no-closing-costs sleaze-o-meter

Dan Smith, who purports to be from Lenox Financial posted a belated comment on my earlier post on Lenox Financial's WBBM radio commercials. You know t [...]
156 West Superior will be unveiled soon

156 West Superior will be unveiled soon

This is 156 West Superior, a new-construction project by Ranquist Development in River North. It's apparently creating a buzz among architecture and [...]
Theater District Lofts continue rebuilding Winthrop

Theater District Lofts continue rebuilding Winthrop

Yesterday we told you about the bargains at Edgewater Terrace on the 5900 block of once-notorious North Winthrop Ave. Uptown Real Estate looks to con [...]
The pink beacon of Sheridan Road: Edgewater Beach Apartments

The pink beacon of Sheridan Road: Edgewater Beach Apartments

It's our own little taste of South Beach right here in Chicago, and given the Midwestern sensibility that permeates the city more than any of us would [...]
Buy a house, buy a school district at Bradley Place

Buy a house, buy a school district at Bradley Place

New single-family homes have become rare in the city, much less single-families in the Alexander Graham Bell school district. The elementary school is [...]

Woodlawn's random retail

Speaking of Woodlawn, as we were in an earlier posting - when you consider that the neighborhood has hardly any restaurants and a dearth of retail opt [...]

Foodies weep in Woodlawn

Next time we hear residents of somewhere like Rogers Park or the South Loop groaning about the lack of restaurant options in their little burg, we're [...]

N Sheridan Rd: beachfront living, mainland prices

Often thought of as tatty hinterlands--when thought of at all--N Sheridan Rd boasts several buildings that once represented Chicago's highest standard [...]

100K goes a long way on Winthrop, which has come a long way

Shopping for a new condo in the five-figures can be depressing, especially when all those tantalizing, multi-million-dollar homes are constantly being [...]

Dude! I found an awesome condo in RedEye

Dude! Don't you think that free newspaper RedEye, like, totally rocks? Judging by the condo development ads that keep appearing in the Chicago Trib's [...]
No fear of intimacy for buyers at new Lake View high-rise

No fear of intimacy for buyers at new Lake View high-rise

Sedgwick Properties, the developer of the new, 140-unit Park View East, at 828 W Grace St in Lake View, promises "this quiet and sophisticated setting [...]

Avoid ugly streets – travel in the right direction

We've noticed a distinct pattern in Chicago and its suburbs: streets that don't run on a true east-west or north-south axis have, on average, uglier b [...]

1st Chicago agents syndicate free Housing Newswire content

Robert Darrow and Steve West, of @properties, are the first Chicago real estate agents to incorporate news from the nifty new wire service, HousingNew [...]
Millennium Park bean update

Millennium Park bean update

Close to three years after it was unveiled, Anish Kapoor's monumental sculpture, Cloud Gate, will be completely open to the public. City officials s [...]
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